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Well this is a different fall, for all the time I've been on BN its either been summer or I was at my old school, at my old school we went to class at 9AM got our assignments for the day and left at 12 to go home and complete them so as I was typing up my work I could always log into BN and follow threads just like you guys at work. But now that I go to a traditional school I go to class at 8AM and get off at 4 then its Debate Team which wasn't offered at my old school, I just realized that I haven't
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My husband is from the Pittsburgh area and has a very curious feature of Western Pennsylvania speech: "The floor needs washed." I find this difficult to parse. As a native New Yorker transplanted to California, I would say either "The floor needs washing" or "The floor needs to be washed." I'm told this is a reflex of Pennsylvania Dutch, a dialect of English from just east-southeast of Pittsburgh which retains some lexical and syntactical features of the 17th century
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Allow me to take this time to say thank you to Basenotes and all of the fellow Basenoters that make this such a great site. I can get on here and be rescued from the nastiness of the world. Here when opinions differ..that's just it..they differ. Most people on here agree that fragrances are subjective and people have a myriad of reasons for loving what they love and loathing what they loathe. As an international community we discuss, debate, dialogue and wait...wait...still get along. So I
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Sephora! Guess what.. MORE samples Only 14 this time I really never knew getting a decanted sample was so damn easy. I would have been doing that this whole time. Although.. I think the next time I go I'll just ask them for some bottles and I'll do it myself. I have a lot I wanna try now! I think I pissed off the SA cause I said "well.. I wanna Fall fragrance that's nice and woody and maybe a bit spicy". She points out like 11 different ones and I tried all of them already. That's
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